Daniel E. Gih, MD

Professor, UNMC Department of Psychiatry
Vice Chair of Education, UNMC Department of Psychiatry

Dr. Gih (he/him/his) is a Professor and Vice Chair of Education in the UNMC Department of Psychiatry and works clinically in the Child and Adolescent Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic. He is the founding program director of the UNMC psychiatry residency program. He completed his medical education at the University of Iowa and trained at the University of Michigan for his psychiatry residency and fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry. While on the faculty at Michigan, he co-founded and directed the University of Michigan Comprehensive Eating Disorder Program, the state's only academic partial hospitalization program for children and young adults with eating disorders.

His clinical interests include medical education, severe mood disorders in adolescents, electroconvulsive therapy, and eating disorders. He is a member of the American College of Psychiatrists, the Association for Academic Psychiatry, and the American Association for Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training. Dr. Gih achieved distinguished fellow status from the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.

Education

MD: University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, 2006
Residency: Psychiatry, University of Michigan Health System, 2009
Fellowship: Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Michigan Health System, 2011

Patient Care

Clinic Practice Location
Poynter Hall, southwest corner of 42nd and Dewey Streets, 3rd floor
Hospital Appointments
Nebraska Medicine

Publications

Ghaziuddin N, Gih D, Barbosa V, Maixner DF, Ghaziuddin M. Onset of catatonia at puberty: electroconvulsive therapy response in two autistic adolescents. J ECT. 2010;26(4):274-277.
Gih D, Ghaziuddin N. Use of electroconvulsive therapy in the treatment of catatonia. Future Neurol. 2014;9(5):533-540.
Andersen L, LaRosa C, Gih DE. Reexamining the role of electroconvulsive therapy in anorexia nervosa in adolescents. J ECT. 2017;33(4):294-296.
Mizusaki K, Gih D, LaRosa C, Richmond R, Rienecke RD. Psychotropic usage by patients presenting to an academic eating disorders program. Eat Weight Disord. 2018;23(6):769-774.
Bernstein SA, Hodgins GE, Abu-Hamad S, Gih DE, Gold JA. Understanding the use of program resources during virtual recruitment by psychiatry residency applicants. Acad Psychiatry. 2023;47(4):380-384.
Bernstein S, Gih D. Social media considerations in graduate medical education. In: Graduate Medical Education in Psychiatry. 2nd ed. 2026:451-457.
Thomas L, Gih D, Batsel-Thomas S. Resident recruitment. In: Graduate Medical Education in Psychiatry. 2nd ed. 2026: 59-71.